{"id":13588,"date":"2023-02-22T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T10:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=13588"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T10:26:51","slug":"9-11-families-not-entitled-to-afghan-bank-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/02\/9-11-families-not-entitled-to-afghan-bank-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;9\/11 families not entitled to Afghan bank funds&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A United States judge has ruled that family members of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are not entitled to funds from Afghanistan\u2019s central bank.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-ibbk12\">\n<p>In the ruling on Tuesday, US District Judge George Daniels said that awarding the families money seized from the Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) would require an assessment that the\u00a0Taliban is the legitimate government of Afghanistan, a decision he was \u201cconstitutionally restrained\u201d from making, reported Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judgment creditors are entitled to collect on their default judgments and be made whole for the worst terrorist attack in our nation\u2019s history, but they cannot do so with the funds of the central bank of Afghanistan,\u201d Daniels wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban \u2014 not the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan or the Afghan people \u2014 must pay for the Taliban\u2019s liability in the 9\/11 attacks,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-vids\">In February 2022, the administration of US President Joe Biden issued a controversial executive order\u00a0stating it would split $7bn in frozen assets from Afghanistan\u2019s central bank between the Afghan people and families of 9\/11 victims who sued the Taliban.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the Taliban was not directly involved in the attacks, lawyers for the families argued it had helped enable al-Qaeda, which mounted the attack, by allowing the group to operate in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-newsletter-slot\">\n<div class=\"sib-newsletter-form general-style\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup Widget\">\n<div class=\"sib-form-container\">\n<div class=\"sib-container--large sib-container--horizontal\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a statement sent to Al Jazeera via text on Tuesday, Arash Azzizada, co-founder of the US-based Afghans For a Better Tomorrow, welcomed the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice will not be served by raiding the coffers of a people suffering from one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A United States judge has ruled that family members of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are not entitled to funds from Afghanistan\u2019s central bank. In the ruling on Tuesday, US District Judge George Daniels said that awarding the families money seized from the Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) would require [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,194],"tags":[12,187,356,766],"class_list":["post-13588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-us","tag-da-afghanistan-bank","tag-9-11"],"views":88,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13590,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions\/13590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}